Stephen Gardiner Quotes

Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.

Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.

All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.

I told everyone who was ready to listen that I had material with pentagonal symmetry. People just laughed at me.

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.

I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.

I see lines of space. I break things down into lines and space, and I balance.

I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

Approach nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone ...

In my opinion, long and intense study of the human figure is the necessary foundation for a sculptor.

I love the simplicity of the Cube because it's a very clear geometrical shape, and I love geometry because it's the study of how the whole universe is structured.

There are three fundamental poses of the human figure. One is standing. The other is seated, and the third is lying down... Of the three poses, the reclining figure gives the most freedom, compositionally and spatially.

While designing, sewing and cutting patterns for clients, my mother was always telling me to make sure the upper part of the body was balanced with the lower part, an A-line skirt to minimize hips or shoulder pads if a client was smaller on top. I was training my eye to create balance.

The reason bubbles are spherical is that a sphere is the smallest, most economical form possible to contain a given volume.

Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more difficult to get right in a drawing than anything else.

The way to judge a good hand is that the fingers are the same size at the tip as where they come out of the hand itself.

Music is geometry in time.